Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1936 — Page 1
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Vote to Ask Courts to Hold Federal Reserve Act Unconstitutional.
DENOUNCE F. D. R. RULE
Radio Priest's Organization Begins Its Political Campaign.
- (Editorial Page 10) “By United Press PUBLIC HALL, Cleveland, Aug. | ‘18.—The National Union for Social Justice today indorsed William ‘Lemke, Union Party candidate for President, and the Rev. Charles E. «Coughlin led his thousands of fol‘lowers into the 1935 presidential ‘campaign. The union also voted unanimously ‘to appeal to the courts to declare the Federal Reserve Act unconstitutional and in a series of resolu‘tions denounced the Roosevelt Ad.ministration’s “usurpation of power.” Delegates voted their approval of Mr. Lemke and Thomas C. O’Brien, Union Parfy vice presidential candidate, after a mad and milling demonstration in thélr favor and "against four other presidential AlNorman G.
fred Mossman Landon, Mattoon Thomas and Earl Browder. ’ One ‘No Vote’
Indorsement of Mr. Lemke came in a burst of “ayes” which swelled from the delegates. . There was one “No.” Permanent C (V. McMahon saids question again.” Delegates booed their displeasure of the Lemke opposition, Once mare there was a thunderous “aye,” but the “no” voter persisted and again was booed. - He hurried out under police escort, but went to the platform instead of away from the building. He was identified as John H. O'Donnell,
Sylvester “1 will put the
Pennsylvania delegate, and was al-
.Jotted three minutes in which to (stale-is opposition to Mr. Lemke. y ma he said, “regardless of ya he has-egurage can -fol-.
~ low a crowd. We have witnessed &'
tremendous demonstration of mob logy here today.” came from all over the hall.
“Some one shouted, “How much are
‘you getting’ for that speech?”
Agreed With Coughlin “I have listened to Father Coughlin since he first became a public ‘ figure and I have agreed with him,” Mr. O'Donnell said. “I have at heart the success of social justice which could have been put through 100 per cent if it had not been for the trickery of ‘the Liberty League and its hirelings which this convention is humbly following.” William PF. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, was placed on the N. U.S. J. booing list when his name was mentioned during reading of convention reso‘lutions. A resolution ridiculing Mr. Green for “weird pronouncements “on monetary reforms.” The resolutions committee statement proclaimed the necessity “for solidarity of the farmer and laborer.” The * resolutions indorsed high standards of living, but denounced the Roosevelt reciprogal tariff policy on the ground that it placed American farmers in competition with foreign agriculture for the domestic market. * A resolution approved the St. Lawrence waterway project and in- _ dorsed the “splendid work of the Civilian Conservation Corps.” Another resolution challenged “private money power.” Another indorsed without reservation all the acts of "our great leader, Father ' Coughlin.” “That one set off a storm of cheering.
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4A the Union Party of Indiana, ., at 46 N. Pennsylvania-st, on inten. Bjetce ‘Building.
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SHARKEY FEELS
‘SORRY' FOR JOE
Louis ‘Will Be Sad Indeed, ! Says Ex- Heavyweight King Modestly.
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-BY WALTER STEWART
heavily corrugated ears and a blood-lust ‘which: would run bright
‘green flushes across the jowls of the
late Nero, emperor of thé Romans
key man is one of the few really cruel bruisers on active duty and
if science would extract thé venom,
the ex-champion would qualify in the featherweight class. Outside - the ring, . Sharkey is greatly. overrated as the villain of the cauliflower clan. He is reasonably agreeable and kind to children. But once’ the seconds have scuttled through the ropes, however, the fellow becomes as affectionate as a man-eating shark with a hangover. Absolutely pitiless, he will rip. a beaten man into fairly unattractive ribbons just for the good clean fun of the thing and Joe Louis is in for some frightful lumps if he allows Sharkey to get him on the run Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. © Sharkey knows the strain young Louis will suffer the: momant he enters the ring and he intends to do something about it. A ria rush topped by. earnest applications of leatner may win for Sharkey right under the gun. In fact he is sure of it. ; “I'm going in there with all I've got and he’s going to get both barrels before he even knows the ooting has begun,” said Jack estly. “EF saw this Louis boy against Baer,” said the Sharkey man, “He was supposed to be at his best then, but I thought he was terrible. He was worse against Schmeling, a fellow I've beaten twice, and he will be sad indeed when he climbs in there against a guy named Sharkey. Bim I feel a little sorry for
RAINS CHECK FIRES By United Press
ORANGEBURG, N.Y, Aug. 15: Jack Sharkey is a citizen with]
and prominent firéebug. The Shar-
subjects that they would be denied’ today in a‘dete ed drive against
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It’s just an old quin custom ‘that reveals at a glance the affection of one Dionne ladies just never seem to tire of rubbing noses.
for another, but the young’ And,
judging from the enthusiastic way in which Emilie is
going about it, she probably plant a big, sisterly kiss on
is planning mischievously to Yvanne' s laughing lips.
Anglo-French Pact Made; Loyalists Blast Oviedo
British ‘Warn’ Subjects Not
"1a Aid Either Side_in Civil War."
po By United Press LONDON, Aug. 15.—A full igi French. agréénient has beén reachéd on the'text of French proposals ‘for prohibiting the expott of arms and munitions’ to’ Spain, it yap. announced today. The announcement followed a stern British warning . to - British
protection if they violated neutrality by aiding either side in Spain’in any way.
U. S. Opposes Sales of Arms to Spain *
By United Press : WASHINGTON, Aug. * 15—The. United States today pursued a two-: fold program intended to keep this country clear of any entanglements resulting from ‘Spanish civil. strife
| and threatened: spread -of hostilities.
1.’Americans : remaining in Madrid were served notice that unless they leave at once: they. will stay “on their own responsibility.” 2. Pressure .of = “moral 'suasion” will be applied to discourage trade in- war materials with the belligerent, factions .in. in warring Spain.
Report U.S. “Guns Aimed
at Rebel Battleship
By United Press’ HENDAYE; French-Spanish Fron-
tier,“ Aug. 15—The United States
Coast Guard Cutter Cayuga and the British destroyer - Comet: trained
thelr guny Sn the Spanish rebel
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ROCHESTER, ‘bert -W. ives, editor and, pubs lisher of the Rochester
‘Republican | 3 for many years, is"dead here. : He
‘was 16.
By United Press : MADRID, Aug. 15. Asturias thin‘ers have entered the outskirts of Oviedo “and are /dyfamiting their way from house to house into the center of the city against desperate rebel resistance, it was announced today. Rebel: forces :began a terrific artillery ‘machine gun bombardment
Irun on:the north coast, dispatches said. The insurgents sought desperately to reach the sea and cuit off San Sebastian on the: east.
Government leaders awaited anxiously news of Badajoz, to the west on ‘the Portuguese frontier, where a fight second in bitterness only to that at Oviedo was being fought—with the rebels, this time the attackers, apparently already in the city, and prepared to kill the defenders to & man, !
Several rebel announcements that the city .actually had been ‘taken proved premature. Soldiers of .the Foreign Legion sent from Africa led the assault. Refugees from. Badajoz continued to cross.the ‘frontier seeking haven, :and to relate stories of terrible slaughter. ; It appears that the Loy-
| alists may have killed many rebel
sympathizers ‘and: that the rebels would exact vengeance. Right: Wing sources asserted that
gal near Badajoz, were dispersed by Portuguese frontier guardsmen, and then tried: to. recapture two motor trucks which were taken from them. The frontier guards fired and droye the Loyalists back nw Spain, it was asserted.
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HATRED OF WAR TOLDBYF.D.h.
Good Neighbor at ; Ehautaugua,
Roosevelt text,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—“T hate war.” . The cry: rises from the lips of President Roosevelt, disturbed by
‘the threat of war in Europe, as he
pleads for peace, appeals to his fel-
Eas iow citizens to resist insidious war | Fotshen propaganda, pledges his every effort | Westerd
to keep war from these shores. He leans forward toward the microphone at Chautauqua, N. X. “I have seen war. ‘I have seen war on land and sea.” Vividly.he describes what he saw— “Blood running from the wounded”— “Men coughing out their gassed
Jungs”—“The dead :in the mud’—
“Cities destroyed”—'Children starving”— wives.’
There are lines now on: his face.
Care: ‘has " ploughed her furrows
about his eyes; --An alder man; recalls 8. younger, more buoyant man who saw the war. - A man who had much to do with naval strategy in the inner
councils, . who helped .to bludgeon a |.
skeptical majority in the Navy Department and-the British high command to approve the North Sea mine barrage which put a erimp in the devastating submarine rampage about the British Isles. Then, on July 8, 1918, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt set sail on the destroyer Dyer for Europe to see both sea and land operations at’ first hand. The little
‘vessel on which he traveled accom-
Saniora RABIES EPIDEMIC
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| county and city budgets, were ap-
By United Bras...
lof July, 1
“The agony of mothers and |
Be Fixed at Meeting in September.
COOK. T0.. SERVE AGAIN
Mrs. Ridge to Represent Schools, Harry Ferguson Municipalities.
Six of the seven members of the Marion County Tax Adjustment) Board, who are to convene the third week in September to fix
pointed today by Circuit. Cours Judge Earl R. Cox. They were: Mrs.’ Clayton Ridge, representing the school board; Edward Cook, Pine Township trustee, representing all! county trustees; Harry' Ferguson, Southport town board ‘chairman, representing municipalities; William Miller of the Miller ‘Hardwaré Co.;- A. D. Hitz, secretary-treasurér of Stierwalt and Hanson, Inc. The last three members are to represent gemeral tax-
payer: Under the law, no one political party is to have more than four of seven members on the board. Judge Cox said that Mr. Cook i$ the only active Democrat on the board and that the remainder made up an equal representation of: both ‘major parties. Mr. Cook is the only. miember reappointed from last year. “The appointments were the most difficult that I have been reqflired to .make because no one wanted to serve on the board,” Judge Cox said. William A. Brown, County Council president, is to be the seventh member by virtue of: his office.
RAILROADS’ REVENUE CONTINUES INCREASE
WASHINGTON, Aug. .15.—July, second month in which Eastern railroads 9 operated under reduced . pashowed substantial in-
that ‘Banh x oun higher thap thse
Tocomplete returns ‘from four ma. jor railroad districts revealed ‘gen eral increases. ‘They were: District July, 1986 July, 1985 $41,404,202 $112,715,385 Li 15,207,087
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Sis PREDICTED BY WEATHER BUREAU
Warm Spell to. to. Continue ~ Over Week-End.
HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6am ...8 10a m.,. 80 74m. ...8 1am. ... 83 8a. m. ... 7 12 Noon .. 87 9a .m.... 80 1pm... 9
Thundershowers + were predicted for tonight or tomorrow, and, added to the light rains of the last hours, will bring more relief to drought-ridden crops in Marion. County. However, it is to continue’ warm, the Weather Bureau said, probably
tomorrow, as it- has the ‘last days.
SPREADS AT BRAZIL
By United Press
City and County Budgets fo]
going into the 90s both: today and |
BRAZIL, Aug. 15—A rabies’ epi- |
Locomotive Boiler Explodes + as Train Speeds Near Terre Haute.
ENGINEER, FIREMAN DIE
Several Cars Are Derailed : Evansville Men Are Victims.
By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 15. — Two trainmen were killed today in a boiler explosion which wrecked a southbound C. & E. I. freight train at Pimento, seven miles south
of here. The victims were Gene Vierling, engineer, and Harry Irwin, fireman, both. of Evansville. Railroad officials were unable to determine immediately the cause of the explosion.
J. Stakeman, Evansville, conductor on the train, and J. C. Shaw, brakeman, escaped uninjured. Mr, Stakeman said the train was traveling ‘about 45 miles an hour when the boiler exploded. . The: engine was thrown on its side and ‘several cars at the head of the train were derailed. Approximately 200 feet of track was torn up before the train came to a halt. Mr, Vierling apparently had been
| standing close to the boiler.
CAR OVERTURNS, DRIVER KILLED
Jesse Bowles, Brownsburg,
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Marion Coys ye deat toll reached 103 today with the death of Jésse Bowles, 42; of Brownsburg, who was injured fatally late yesterday when ‘his automobile skidded in gravel and overturned on the Wall-
609.348 st road, a mile west of Eagle Creek.
Unconscious when deputy sheriffs arrived at the scene, Mr. Bowles died in the receiving ward at City Hospital. Tex McCowan, 25, also of Brownsburg, who was. riding with Mr. Bowles, received a possible fractured skull and still was unconscious in City Hospital early today. : Eleven others were injured in automobile accidents last night in Indianapolis and vicinity. Two city (Turn to Page Three)
ADVANCE POSSIBILITY OF DOUBLE MURDER
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By United Press WABASH, Aug. 15 a theory of
| double murder: in the shooting of
Mr. and Mrs. Omer Dunfee, Wabash County farm couple, was
bullet holes in the bodies. An autopsy revealed Dunfee had
-| been shot four times, twice in the
chest, once in the arm and once
-in the right temple, and his wife
burst tanks flooded the
raised today after examination of |
Fast Freight Rams Truck in ‘Canada; 11 More Are Hurt Critically.
17 MEET INSTANT DEATH
Gasoline. Tanks Burst and Many of Victims Are . Burned to Death.
By United Press LOUISEVILLE, Quebec, Aug. 15.—Twenty-five men and boys were killed and 11 injured seriously ‘today when a fast freight train struck a truck carrying 40 persons at a grade crossing a half mile east of here. Seventeen of the victims were killed outright. The others , died later in ambu-
lances and in the hospital. The truck caught fire while the heavy train swept it three-quarters of a mile down the track and some of the victims were burned to death. Four men said to have been on the truck were missing and may have died in the fire. Physicians nurses and ambulances were summoned from towns f many miles around Louiseville. Some of the most seriously injured. were sent by ambulance to Montreal for emergency operations. = Physicians said condition of the injured ‘was: critical. Four of those injured jumped from the truck before the train struck.
Strive to Save Injured
Most; of the dead were left where they lay while all the meager medical facilities: of “the district were turned to saving the injured. Bodies were thrown as far as 100 yards from the tracks. : “That whole a uarters
should have had a clear view of the track.
The driver was Edmond Houle, 40, _ Gasoline Tanks Burst
worked desperately but almost futilely to. remove parts of the truck jamrged under the locomotive. Hi said it would be impossible to iy uablish ‘whether: other bodies yr e wreckage until a: wrecking train ‘arrived from Montreal. ‘Gasoline. from:
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